On the Scans Daily thing.
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scans_daily on livejournal. I know it's back already, but it'll take a while to rebuild, and what if our new home kicks us out too? The reasons and attitudes that got us shut down haven't gone away just because we've gone elsewhere.
I think what's depressing me most isn't so much the loss of the comm, it's why, and what some people are saying about it now. I suppose they'd been saying it all along, but I hadn't noticed, because I wasn't where they were. I was on Scans Daily, making jokes about Nightwing's ass or something. But apparently we were evil. We were pirates. We were taking food from creators' mouths. We were entitlement bitches who felt we had the right to steal comics instead of buying them like good boys and girls (mostly girls).
...It happens that I am currently in the process of sorting through my massive comic collection. It outgrew my shelves a while ago and spilled out onto the floor (which I maintain TOTALLY COUNTS as a very large, very low shelf). Last week I started to try to arrange the piles into different piles, in the faint, desperate hope that maybe I could get them organized and maybe back onto a shelf at some point.
So when I found out that Scans Daily was gone, and why some people thought that was a good thing, I just, sort of wandered over to the miniature cityscape of book skyscrapers I've got over there and started running my fingers over the spines, remembering.
The new Blue Beetle. What was it that somebody posted that made me want to read that?... Oh yeah, it was the bit where the Blue Beetle's Mom and Dad tell him that he can go help people in accidents or natural disasters without getting permission first, so long as his homework's done and he calls if he's going to be late. That was awesome. I love superhero comics where the friends and family know. Not only wouldn't I have bought that, heck, I probably COULDN'T have bought that without Scans Daily. I wouldn't have known who the old Blue Beetle was or who Booster Gold was or anything or why I should care and I would have been hopelessly lost. As it is I had to spend like an hour on wikipedia and ask another nerd what the heck an OMAC was...
...Ah, the All New Atom by Gail Simone. I bet it was the bit with the giant naked lady attacking the drive in that made me pick this up. I'm a sucker for a giant naked lady drive-in movie rampage. Gail Simone doesn't think I'm evil or entitled. That's good to know, at least.
Ooh, Flower of Life. Did I?... Yeah, I think that was another Scans Daily one. The bit with the creepy otaku going on and on without pausing for breath until someone screams at him to shut up. I KNOW that guy. I hear volume four of this might FINALLY be coming out, better get my comic guy to place it on order...
Marvel Adventures versions of Avengers and Fantastic Four. I never much liked the original 616 versions of these, it never would have occured to me that these could be awesome if I hadn't seen them on Scans Daily and seen that it was PURE KICKASS AND COTTON CANDY in paper form.
Ha! Empowered! Oh my gaaaawd, Empowered. It would NEVER have occured to me that I might like Empowered. I would have glanced at it and rolled my eyes and gone "oh, yet another T&A comic" and been COMPLETELY WRONG and infinitely sadder than I am now without this little guilty pleasure in my life. Because it IS T&A but it's just so damned adorable, and Emp is trying so hard and she's so sweet and she doesn't deserve a fraction of the crap she gets slung at her and hating her or her comic would be like hating orphaned shelter puppies and without Scans Daily showing me I would never have known! And now I own all four volumes. Wait, there's only three here, where's... Oh, my sister has volume one. Okay. Damn, I hope she finishes it soon. I'm all cravey now.
I think she has my copy of Top Ten, too. Or maybe I loaned that one to my best friend... Yeah, that's it, she was on the phone gushing about how awesome Irma Geddon was. I love that goddamn comic so goddamn much. It's like... like if you could somehow make a candy that had the bright colours and the crunch and fizz and sparkle of pop rocks that miraculously also had the richness and depth and bittersweet smoothness of expensive dark chocolate. That's what Top Ten would be like if you could eat it. And then you could never eat anything else ever again and you'd die malnourished and three hundred pounds overweight (but happy). So it's just as well that you can't eat Top Ten. But I'm glad Scans Daily gave me a taste.
HOLY SHIT, Ex Machina! I discovered freaking EX MACHINA on Scans Daily! How could I forget that? God, I am addicted to that thing! And I'm always pushing it on everybody as an example of just how excellent comics can be. And how photo-referencing should be done, as opposed to how Greg Land does it. (Damn, I need to go somewhere else to commiserate and bitch about Greg Land's porn tracings now...) But I've bought every single trade of Ex Machina, so Vertigo owes, um, seven sales to Scans Daily. No, wait, fourteen, because a few months back a friend of mine was in the comic shop looking for something new and I put Ex Machina in her hands and told her to buy it and the next time I saw her she was buying all the others.
Oh yeah, I shouldn't forget the comics I shared. I was scanning and uploading too. Not often, and never more than six pages of anything, because I didn't want to choke up the page too much, and scanning is tedious as hell anyway. But I guess it was enough to make me a criminal and a bad fan, in the eyes of some.
Anyway, I uploaded the opening scene of Done To Death by Andrew Foley. I wish somebody would print a trade of that, it's hard to find. I figured it was a good sampler/intro, because it was the same scene Foley put on an overhead projector to read out loud at a local library event. Almost everyone seemed to really love it. Well, one person thought that the slushpile editor staking the vampire badfic-writer was overkill, but most people admitted that's something they'd like to do.
Ooh, and Tales of Leonardo: Blind Sight. That was my very first post. You can never get enough Ninja Turtles. And the art on that one was pretty sweet, too.
Oh, hell, Zombies Calling! That was the one where after I posted the ACTUAL AUTHOR, ACTUAL FAITH ERIN HICKS posted and joked that woo, she was on Scans Daily now, she must have finally hit the big time, and I was all like daah, I temporaily forgot you were a real person with a real livejournal and now I'm getting all shy and incoherent like I always do around people who make stuff I like and thank god you're at least not in the same room to see me go glazed and mumbly. (Guest appearances at conventions are extremely frustrating. I'm thinking of typing up cards in advance. "Hello. I become mute in the presence of awesome and therefore am unable to tell you how awesome you are. Please do not hold it against me.")
Some of my happiest, and smuggest, moments as a fan are successful conversions. When I loan a book to a friend and she complains because now she has to buy it and all the sequels. Or when I flip to a page or read a few favourite word balloons aloud in the comic shop and somebody who was waffling decides to try what I'm recommending. Or when, on Scans Daily, somebody posts a reply to my entry and says "Well, I'm sold! I'll have to track that down!" It gives me all kinds of warm fuzzies. I live for that. I think I'm far from the only Scans Daily poster who did live for that.
That and the jokes about Nightwing's ass. Sigh. Good times.
scans_daily on livejournal. I know it's back already, but it'll take a while to rebuild, and what if our new home kicks us out too? The reasons and attitudes that got us shut down haven't gone away just because we've gone elsewhere.I think what's depressing me most isn't so much the loss of the comm, it's why, and what some people are saying about it now. I suppose they'd been saying it all along, but I hadn't noticed, because I wasn't where they were. I was on Scans Daily, making jokes about Nightwing's ass or something. But apparently we were evil. We were pirates. We were taking food from creators' mouths. We were entitlement bitches who felt we had the right to steal comics instead of buying them like good boys and girls (mostly girls).
...It happens that I am currently in the process of sorting through my massive comic collection. It outgrew my shelves a while ago and spilled out onto the floor (which I maintain TOTALLY COUNTS as a very large, very low shelf). Last week I started to try to arrange the piles into different piles, in the faint, desperate hope that maybe I could get them organized and maybe back onto a shelf at some point.
So when I found out that Scans Daily was gone, and why some people thought that was a good thing, I just, sort of wandered over to the miniature cityscape of book skyscrapers I've got over there and started running my fingers over the spines, remembering.
The new Blue Beetle. What was it that somebody posted that made me want to read that?... Oh yeah, it was the bit where the Blue Beetle's Mom and Dad tell him that he can go help people in accidents or natural disasters without getting permission first, so long as his homework's done and he calls if he's going to be late. That was awesome. I love superhero comics where the friends and family know. Not only wouldn't I have bought that, heck, I probably COULDN'T have bought that without Scans Daily. I wouldn't have known who the old Blue Beetle was or who Booster Gold was or anything or why I should care and I would have been hopelessly lost. As it is I had to spend like an hour on wikipedia and ask another nerd what the heck an OMAC was...
...Ah, the All New Atom by Gail Simone. I bet it was the bit with the giant naked lady attacking the drive in that made me pick this up. I'm a sucker for a giant naked lady drive-in movie rampage. Gail Simone doesn't think I'm evil or entitled. That's good to know, at least.
Ooh, Flower of Life. Did I?... Yeah, I think that was another Scans Daily one. The bit with the creepy otaku going on and on without pausing for breath until someone screams at him to shut up. I KNOW that guy. I hear volume four of this might FINALLY be coming out, better get my comic guy to place it on order...
Marvel Adventures versions of Avengers and Fantastic Four. I never much liked the original 616 versions of these, it never would have occured to me that these could be awesome if I hadn't seen them on Scans Daily and seen that it was PURE KICKASS AND COTTON CANDY in paper form.
Ha! Empowered! Oh my gaaaawd, Empowered. It would NEVER have occured to me that I might like Empowered. I would have glanced at it and rolled my eyes and gone "oh, yet another T&A comic" and been COMPLETELY WRONG and infinitely sadder than I am now without this little guilty pleasure in my life. Because it IS T&A but it's just so damned adorable, and Emp is trying so hard and she's so sweet and she doesn't deserve a fraction of the crap she gets slung at her and hating her or her comic would be like hating orphaned shelter puppies and without Scans Daily showing me I would never have known! And now I own all four volumes. Wait, there's only three here, where's... Oh, my sister has volume one. Okay. Damn, I hope she finishes it soon. I'm all cravey now.
I think she has my copy of Top Ten, too. Or maybe I loaned that one to my best friend... Yeah, that's it, she was on the phone gushing about how awesome Irma Geddon was. I love that goddamn comic so goddamn much. It's like... like if you could somehow make a candy that had the bright colours and the crunch and fizz and sparkle of pop rocks that miraculously also had the richness and depth and bittersweet smoothness of expensive dark chocolate. That's what Top Ten would be like if you could eat it. And then you could never eat anything else ever again and you'd die malnourished and three hundred pounds overweight (but happy). So it's just as well that you can't eat Top Ten. But I'm glad Scans Daily gave me a taste.
HOLY SHIT, Ex Machina! I discovered freaking EX MACHINA on Scans Daily! How could I forget that? God, I am addicted to that thing! And I'm always pushing it on everybody as an example of just how excellent comics can be. And how photo-referencing should be done, as opposed to how Greg Land does it. (Damn, I need to go somewhere else to commiserate and bitch about Greg Land's porn tracings now...) But I've bought every single trade of Ex Machina, so Vertigo owes, um, seven sales to Scans Daily. No, wait, fourteen, because a few months back a friend of mine was in the comic shop looking for something new and I put Ex Machina in her hands and told her to buy it and the next time I saw her she was buying all the others.
Oh yeah, I shouldn't forget the comics I shared. I was scanning and uploading too. Not often, and never more than six pages of anything, because I didn't want to choke up the page too much, and scanning is tedious as hell anyway. But I guess it was enough to make me a criminal and a bad fan, in the eyes of some.
Anyway, I uploaded the opening scene of Done To Death by Andrew Foley. I wish somebody would print a trade of that, it's hard to find. I figured it was a good sampler/intro, because it was the same scene Foley put on an overhead projector to read out loud at a local library event. Almost everyone seemed to really love it. Well, one person thought that the slushpile editor staking the vampire badfic-writer was overkill, but most people admitted that's something they'd like to do.
Ooh, and Tales of Leonardo: Blind Sight. That was my very first post. You can never get enough Ninja Turtles. And the art on that one was pretty sweet, too.
Oh, hell, Zombies Calling! That was the one where after I posted the ACTUAL AUTHOR, ACTUAL FAITH ERIN HICKS posted and joked that woo, she was on Scans Daily now, she must have finally hit the big time, and I was all like daah, I temporaily forgot you were a real person with a real livejournal and now I'm getting all shy and incoherent like I always do around people who make stuff I like and thank god you're at least not in the same room to see me go glazed and mumbly. (Guest appearances at conventions are extremely frustrating. I'm thinking of typing up cards in advance. "Hello. I become mute in the presence of awesome and therefore am unable to tell you how awesome you are. Please do not hold it against me.")
Some of my happiest, and smuggest, moments as a fan are successful conversions. When I loan a book to a friend and she complains because now she has to buy it and all the sequels. Or when I flip to a page or read a few favourite word balloons aloud in the comic shop and somebody who was waffling decides to try what I'm recommending. Or when, on Scans Daily, somebody posts a reply to my entry and says "Well, I'm sold! I'll have to track that down!" It gives me all kinds of warm fuzzies. I live for that. I think I'm far from the only Scans Daily poster who did live for that.
That and the jokes about Nightwing's ass. Sigh. Good times.
